The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Hopefully better than that pathetic number claimed by the BBC. Although that estimation of the UK’s collective inteligence might explain some of their programming choices. [ahem]

Instructions: Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Let’s give it a go, shall we?

1. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings — JRR Tolkien [X]
3. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
4. The “Harry Potter” series — JK Rowling [X]
5. To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee [X]
6. The Bible — Various [X]
7. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
8. Nineteen Eighty Four — George Orwell [X]; when you graduate from high school in the title year, you find all sorts of assignments in English 12 making you read it whether you like it or not
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